Shipping costs for various items

Silent47Assassin said:

Hi all,

I am new to buying and selling used items and hence would like to know what are the typical shipping costs for parcels (weight, dimensions, courier partner, source and destination cities) and how do people hand over the items to the courier (drop-off vs pickup). I am from Kolkata (south) and hence more interested in my local rates, but please feel free to include rates from other states too.

Hope to see a good amount of response from all.

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Create an account with shiprocket. I recently shipped a package of speakers to baroda from coimbatore via FedEx surface I was charged some 200 for it. Box was quite big. See the dimensions.

puns said:

what documents they need for signing up. Open to everyone or only businesses ?

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Open to all. I don't have gst number. I had to do verification over phone camera. And I think pan card was uploaded.

chetansha said:

Open to all. I don't have gst number. I had to do verification over phone camera. And I think pan card was uploaded.

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I had looked at the app sometime back but found it has got poor reviews.

If you know the dimensions and weight, as suggested above dtdc mobile app gives you a good estimate. I shipped a GPU from Chennai to Kolkata recently using DTDC, it weighed around 1.5kg and was charged 450rs. I sent it through DTDC lite and it reached the buyer in 2 days. I asked bluedart and they said 800rs for the same.

chetansha said:

Create an account with shiprocket. I recently shipped a package of speakers to baroda from coimbatore via FedEx surface I was charged some 200 for it. Box was quite big. See the dimensions. View attachment 100771

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I created an account with shiprocket, and since that day they've been sending emails and calling to verify my business. Is it necessary to have a firm to use shiprocket?

nitin_g3 said:

I created an account with shiprocket, and since that day they've been sending emails and calling to verify my business. Is it necessary to have a firm to use shiprocket?

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Well i don't know about that.

nitin_g3 said:

I created an account with shiprocket, and since that day they've been sending emails and calling to verify my business. Is it necessary to have a firm to use shiprocket?

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I have an account with shiprocket, tried fedupex and nodelhivery to ship a product (amazon order) weigh 20gm, nobody picked it despite multiple tickets/escalations and calls to shiprocket, fedupex and nodelhivery, in the end i had to cancel after 12 days.

Edit, BTW, i will give shiprocket another try some other day, maybe it was because my order was of low vale (Rs69 for shipping , interesting number). Also i had recharged with Rs1000 and got Rs200 extra as an offer, but after this experience i told customer care of shiprocket to give back my money so they gave me whole Rs1131 instead of just 1k.
Prices offered by these shipping companies is straight loot, but via shiprocket its comparable to indiapost. (Bluedart even lies, i tried to ship a computer cabinet which had 15kg volumetric weight, bluedart customer care told me that its more than 30kg and said 5k for shipping.)

Also, i don't think you need business account to ship via shiprocket, as they have asked me multiple times ( during that above mentioned escalations ) if its a business account or personnel account.